Halloween at Our House!

Hi guys! With all of the One Room Challenge craziness I’m really missing sharing more of my regular what’s-going-on-at-my-house posts with you all so even though it’s only one day before Halloween, I wanted to share a few quick shots of our home decorated for the holiday. I went simple this year. Like SUPER simple. (post includes affiliate links – see my full disclosure statement {here})

For our front porch, I kept everything the same from how I’ve had it decorated for the past few months other than swapping out my wreath and doormat for the spooky ones that I used last year and adding an animated cat (because what’s Halloween without at least a little bit of tackiness?!):

Can you tell that Hope is a little wary of that spooky sucker? She doesn’t take her eyes of it when she’s on our front porch – can’t blame her because it’s quite a bit bigger than she is! 

Inside our house there are a few creepy critters (rats and spiders) scattered about and a pretty emaciated guest hanging out in our dining room:

He’s lifesize and posable and I’ve definitely had a little more fun than is probably normal moving him around into different positions. He was a Target find but I think they’re pretty wiped out of them by now – I found a similar one {here} that gets great reviews and is already marked down from what it was when I was searching for one two weeks ago.

Since our trick-or-treaters won’t be able to see our creepy guest where he’s currently hanging out in the dining room, the plan is to have him “welcome” them down our front walkway by positioning him on our arbor:

It’s the perfect spooky spot since our poor arbor is one its last legs and looking like it belongs in a haunted house at this point!

Our plans for the day today include carving up a pumpkin or two since we haven’t gotten to that yet. My youngest daughter has done the most unbelievable, intricate pumpkin carvings the past few years. Have you guys ever tried doing one? I wrote a post on free pumpkin carving patterns few years back (you can find it {here}) that I recently updated with all sorts of new ones. You simply print the pattern, adhere it to your pumpkin, and cut away – something fun to try in case you’re late carvers like us and looking for a few new ideas!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and happy (one day early) Halloween!